a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?

Love is the joy of the soul.

Hitting rock bottom is the most precious level of our lives: because then we can choose which foundation to build, direction to take, and mental programs to embrace.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you.

It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities.

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about